5.
What is BadgerLink?
• BadgerLink is Wisconsin’s online library
which provides access to licensed content
such as magazines, newspapers,
scholarly articles, videos, images, and
music
• Available to all Wisconsin residents from
libraries of all types, homes, and work
places

6.
What is BadgerLink?
• Project of the Wisconsin Department of
Public Instruction (DPI), Division for
Libraries and Technology
• BadgerLink paid for with over $2 million in
state funding (Universal Service Fund)

7.
• Quality learning and instructional
materials
• Full text magazines and newspapers
• Age appropriate materials
• Shelf space savings
• A collection at no direct cost to your
library
• Access to materials not available through
Google or other public search engines
• Access to information from anywhere
BadgerLink OFFERS…

10.
How does BadgerLink work?
• We must ensure that only Wisconsin
residents are using our resources
• BadgerLink identifies you as a Wisconsin
resident by looking at your computer
Internet Protocol (IP) address or library
card number

11.
How does BadgerLink work?
• We maintain an anonymous list (over
one million!) of Wisconsin IP addresses!
• If for some reason you can’t access
BadgerLink…

12.
Contact Us to request to
have your IP address
added to BadgerLink!

33.
You are able to
start and stop your
practice tests and
courses.
See your scored
test when you are
done.

34.
LearningExpress Library
eBooks:
• No maximum simultaneous users
• No limit on number of downloads
• No checkout requirements

35.
LearningExpress Library
Popular Software Tutorials
• WiLS funded using funds awarded through
a LSTA grant
• To make the materials easy for patrons
and librarians to find and use, they’ve
been integrated with the LearningExpress
Library available on the BadgerLink
website

46.
Videos, Webinars, and
Documentation
• The BadgerLink team has compiled
training materials to best help you find and
use our resources.
• http://www.badgerlink.net/help/training

47.
• Request BadgerLink trainings for your school or
library
• Trainings can cover:
Trainings
• How to search
BadgerLink!
• Reader’s Advisory
• Using BadgerLink in
the classroom
• Finding Multimedia in
BadgerLink
• Suggest a new topic
you are interested in
exploring!